| mercury in seabird feathers: insight on dietary habits and evidence for exposure levels in the western indian ocean. | breast feathers were used to estimate mercury levels in six marine birds nesting in the tropical western indian ocean, i.e. sooty tern (sterna fuscata), brown noddy (anous stolidus), lesser noddy (anous tenuirostris), audubon shearwater (puffinus lherminieri bailloni), barau's petrel (pterodroma baraui) and the white-tailed tropicbird (phaethon lepturus). juveniles consistently showed lower plumage mercury than adults. the lowest mean level was noted in juvenile sooty terns from the glorioso arc ... | 2007 | 17659323 |
| trace elements in three marine birds breeding on reunion island (western indian ocean): part 2-factors influencing their detoxification. | seabird tissues collected between 2002 and 2004 from barau's petrel (pterodroma baraui), audubon's shearwater (puffinus lherminieri bailloni), and white-tailed trop icbird (phaethon lepturus) colonies on reunion island were analyzed for metallothioneins (mts) and trace element content. the subcellular distribution between soluble and insoluble fractions of cd, cu, fe, mn, se, and zn was determined in liver and kidney. in both, the soluble fraction of the cell concentrated most of the cd and se, ... | 2007 | 17354039 |
| trace elements in three marine birds breeding on reunion island (western indian ocean): part 1-factors influencing their bioaccumulation. | this work aimed to use seabirds as bioindicators of trace element levels in the tropical waters and food webs of the western indian ocean. the accumulation patterns of selected toxic (cd and hg) and essential (cu, fe, mn, se, and zn) elements were determined in liver, kidney, and pectoral muscle of 162 marine birds belonging to 3 species collected in reunion island between 2002 and 2004. these pelagic seabirds belong to the following species: barau's petrel (pterodroma baraui), audubon's shearwa ... | 2007 | 17165110 |
| breeding biology of a winter-breeding procellariiform in the north atlantic, the macaronesian shearwater puffinus lherminieri baroli. | the breeding success of burrow-nesting seabirds may be influenced by both nest site characteristics and oceanographic conditions influencing food availability at sea. in this study we describe the breeding biology of the winter-breeding macaronesian shearwater (puffinus lherminieri baroli), including nest site characteristics and interspecific competition. we also evaluate the possible effects of changing oceanographic conditions on breeding phenology and breeding success. the study was carried ... | 2016 | 27353191 |
| evidence for a duplicated mitochondrial region in audubon's shearwater based on minion sequencing. | mitochondrial genetic markers have been extensively used to study the phylogenetics and phylogeography of many birds, including seabirds of the order procellariiformes. evidence suggests that part of the mitochondrial genome of procellariiformes, especially albatrosses, is duplicated, but no dna fragment covering the entire duplication has been sequenced. we sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of a non-albatross species of procellariiformes, puffinus lherminieri (audubon's shearwater) us ... | 2019 | 30043666 |